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Waterfall in Tivoli

Jacob Philipp Hackert

Basic information

ID: Ж-259
Author: Jacob Philipp Hackert
Name: Waterfall in Tivoli
Technique: oil painting
Material: canvas oil
Dimensions: 33.8 x 28 cm (height x width)

Additionally

Type: painting
Genre: landscape
Plot: Landscape
Provenance: Collection of Ivan Yakovych
Exposition: Potocki Palace

Information about author

Author: Jacob Philipp Hackert
Artist's lifetime: 1737–1807
Country: Germany
Biography: Jacob Philipp Hackert (1737–1807) was a German painter and landscape artist. He studied painting first with his father and uncle and later at the Academy of Arts in Berlin. At the beginning of the 1760s, he worked in Scandinavia and later in France. After 1768 and until the end of his life, he worked in Italy, serving for some time as court painter to Ferdinand IV. In the 1780s, Hackert became friends with J. W. von Goethe, who published a catalogue of the artist's paintings and a biography after the painter's death (1811). Hackert was one of the most successful landscape painters of his time, a typical representative of Сlassicism. During his lifetime, he had high-ranking admirers among European aristocrats.

Object description

Jakob Philipp Hackert became one of the best landscape painters at the Neapolitan court by depicting Italian landscapes. In the 16th century, depictions of villas on the outskirts of Rome became popular. Particularly often depicted was the Villa d'Este in Tivoli, where the natural landscape of the waterfall harmoniously coexists with the architecture. The painting "Waterfall in Tivoli" depicts a landscape featuring a large waterfall, next to which stands an ancient rotunda. The artist accurately reproduced the landscape in a topographical manner. The meticulous detailing, along with the influence of the veduta genre and Dutch painting, crystallised the subdued colour palette of the landscape, characteristic of the artist.

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